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Current ecological concerns provide an excellent context within which to look at the work ; a century ago, his poetry was already addressing such issues in a way that is still fresh today and from within a traditional Catholic framework. Arguably, it does so more consistently than the work of any other creative writer. His work carries all the more conviction since it was never consciously composed with contemporary ecological concerns in mind, but was simply the outcome of his profound, patristic understanding of the cosmic dimension of the Incarnation. Comparisons are made with the writings of Maximus the Confessor, (the “cosmic theologian”). Claudel influenced several young theologians who were later to become household names and who admitted their debt to him: Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, Jean Daniélou and Pope Benedict XVI. 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